What is he there for?

Feb 8, 2009 at 4:58 PM
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As a member of Arashi?

To promote Arashi to America officially?

To check out all the fangirls and tell them all about Arashi and what to expect from Arashi in the future for the press conference?

If anyone mistook it as a Arashi Around America press conference with only Sho as the one to be the representative, I would say that it is just a sad case of not looking into the details - or any details at all.

Sho is there for one thing. To promote the movie as PART of the CAST. He is there to talk about the movie. It is part of his JOB, one of his obligation in the event. He is NOT there alone. The director was also there. It's not his personal fan meet event. There are people there for other reasons other than Sakurai Sho, even if you were there solely for him or just because he is one fifth of Arashi. Can you imagine their horror to know that they will have to do a Johnny's fans competition for tickets when they get there for the director or the movie itself? I'm quite sure that while the fangirls were panicking, so were they.

If the Q&A is about the movie, THEN KEEP IT WITHIN THE TOPIC in that session. Even on the internet forums, when one went off topic severely, the moderator or administrator will intervene to keep the discussion within topic again. What makes others think this PLANNED event would be any different?

While the entire thing was not organised well, I have sympathy for the organisers too. They were overwhelmed. While the fangirls were assuming that the organisers SHOULD HAVE KNOWN how popular Sho might be, they probably DIDN'T. The assumption that one cast out about how others who are non-fans should have known about the boys as if they were fans are arrogant. For your information, even the boys themselves still have no idea just how popular they really are outside of Japan. Even in Japan, there are people who doesn't know just how popular they are so who are we to assume that everyone would "know"?

I'm thankful when more people come to like the boys and admire them for all sorts of reasons. I'm NOT, however, going to start assuming that everyone in the world will come to love and know them as I have come to do so.

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It was kind of funny seeing the con website constantly updating its information "due to the influx of emails concerning Sakurai Sho's appearance".. I wasn't expecting the most peaceful of meets, but should it have been the responsibility of some fan or other to email that there might be unprecedented numbers turning up to the event? Not that there is one person that can undertake that role, but 'underprepared' is an understatement. I'm glad it sounded enjoyable, for the most part.

I would say it is wrong on both sides. While the organisers should have done a better job to ensure more orderly queues, it is also the responsibility of the people going there to not only take care of themselves but also to behave like civilised people. Some do, some doesn't and the ones that do not do that made it worse for everyone else, what's more a little boy nearly got trampled. The fact that there is space constraint is not helping either. In the end, many people lose out on what would have been an enjoyable experience for a greater amount of people. Hopefully nothing like this happens again.

I think onef fan mentioned that there were a couple of people who tried to warn the con organizers beforehand but they didn't think it would be a problem. Till it was of course. All in all the situation could have been handled better by both parties. Oh, by the way, if you don't mind, is it alright to link to this post? I found it informative and I was making a masterpost of these so... ^^

Here- http://booksandsarcasm.livejournal.com/25282.html

Dear~~

As what Tokki told me last week...they really sang Arashi Arashi for dream==""I think they total misunderstand what the aims of this event(even Sho seems happy^^)but when I watched the clips....its really -----> )0(

And I can saw the staff around Sho Chan is also *o*!!!!!!!!!

Really nothing can said

But on the other hand Sho really looks like CEO.....nose bleeding...heeee~~~